I'm going to use the term 'affordance' in what follows, and I know from experience over the years that people misunderstand this term:
In psychology, affordance is what the environment offers the individual. In design, affordance has a narrower meaning; it refers to possible actions that an actor can readily perceive.
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Every week I get a Google Scholar alert with academic articles that have cited my work. The screenshot above is from a recent one about which I was alerted. No, I'm not going to link to it.
These days, it's pretty obvious that the authors of papers citing my work haven't read my actual words, but only other people's summaries. And, of course, some "scholars" either intentionally or accidentally misinterpret my work for their own ends.
…N.B. You should probably know that I wrote my doctoral thesis on digital literacies and I have opinions including that literate practices happen in communities, rather than being a solo intellectual pursuit.
I'm going to dive straight in.
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